22-07-2013, 08:52 PM
Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil, by Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett, is a complement to Gibson's Battling, illustrating the use of CIA, Green Berets, financial and diplomatic pressure, regime change, assassination, and pacification of recalcitrant tribes to expedite the extraction and exploitation of the Hemisphere's resources to the profit of the few at the expense of the continued lament of the many.
It wasn't merely that Kennedy was an obstacle to steel magnates or oil barons; it was that he desired loans be made absent the customary military codicils, that the quality of life be raised for all, though plenty deprived the profits of the scarcity merchants as a glut of diamonds or gold--or oil.
His opposition to post-colonial Cold War alliances with dictators and covert interference by intelligence and industry made him an enemy of the extant cabal.
Ike saw a military-industrial complex rampant; Truman petitioned, "Return CIA to Intelligence Role," but Kennedy saw the larger picture of interference with self-determination to profit the global interests.
Settling on a single villain, e.g., LBJ or Hoover or American mafia or intelligence or industry or right-wing or Cubans or Pentagon is to settle for a single Blind Man's description of the Elephant.
Kennedy was the only American president of the Century of the Fed to elevate the interests of all peoples to those of the American people.
He was therefore an existential threat to Ahab and was harpooned
at High Noon
as An Example
It wasn't merely that Kennedy was an obstacle to steel magnates or oil barons; it was that he desired loans be made absent the customary military codicils, that the quality of life be raised for all, though plenty deprived the profits of the scarcity merchants as a glut of diamonds or gold--or oil.
His opposition to post-colonial Cold War alliances with dictators and covert interference by intelligence and industry made him an enemy of the extant cabal.
Ike saw a military-industrial complex rampant; Truman petitioned, "Return CIA to Intelligence Role," but Kennedy saw the larger picture of interference with self-determination to profit the global interests.
Settling on a single villain, e.g., LBJ or Hoover or American mafia or intelligence or industry or right-wing or Cubans or Pentagon is to settle for a single Blind Man's description of the Elephant.
Kennedy was the only American president of the Century of the Fed to elevate the interests of all peoples to those of the American people.
He was therefore an existential threat to Ahab and was harpooned
at High Noon
as An Example